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Eject

To expel; to dismiss; to cast forth; to thrust or drive out; to discharge; as, to eject a person from a room; to eject a traitor from the country; to eject words from the language.

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Manner of action 22

Abort 76% connected

To miscarry; to bring forth young prematurely.

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Bleed 76% connected

To emit blood; to lose blood; to run with blood, by whatever means; as, the arm bleeds; the wound bled freely; to bleed at the nose.

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Blow 76% connected

To flower; to blossom; to bloom.

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Bounce 76% connected

To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; a knock loudly.

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Breathe 76% connected

To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live.

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Egest 76% connected

To cast or throw out; to void, as excrement; to excrete, as the indigestible matter of the food; in an extended sense, to excrete by the lungs, skin,…

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Ejaculate 76% connected

To throw out suddenly and swiftly, as if a dart; to dart; to eject.

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Eliminate 76% connected

To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty.

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Emit 76% connected

To send forth; to throw or give out; to cause to issue; to give vent to; to eject; to discharge; as, fire emits heat and smoke; boiling water emits s…

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Eruct 76% connected

Alt. of Eructate

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Evict 76% connected

To dispossess by a judicial process; to dispossess by paramount right or claim of such right; to eject; to oust.

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Excrete 76% connected

To separate and throw off; to excrete urine.

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Exorcise 76% connected

To cast out, as a devil, evil spirits, etc., by conjuration or summoning by a holy name, or by certain ceremonies; to expel (a demon) or to conjure (…

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Expectorate 76% connected

To eject from the trachea or lungs; to discharge, as phlegm or other matter, by coughing, hawking, and spitting; to spit forth.

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Extravasate 76% connected

To force or let out of the proper vessels or arteries, as blood.

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Fester 76% connected

To generate pus; to become imflamed and suppurate; as, a sore or a wound festers.

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Hemorrhage 76% connected

Any discharge of blood from the blood vessels.

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Maturate 76% connected

To bring to ripeness or maturity; to ripen.

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Ovulate 76% connected

Containing an ovule or ovules.

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Pass 76% connected

To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…

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Spew 76% connected

To eject from the stomach; to vomit.

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Suppurate 76% connected

To generate pus; as, a boil or abscess suppurates.

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Broader term 6

Discharge 76% connected

To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.

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Eliminate 76% connected

To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty.

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Exit 76% connected

He (or she ) goes out, or retires from view; as, exit Macbeth.

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Expel 76% connected

To drive or force out from that within which anything is contained, inclosed, or situated; to eject; as to expel air from a bellows.

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Leave 76% connected

To send out leaves; to leaf; -- often with out.

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Obviate 76% connected

To meet in the way.

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Derivationally related 8

Expulsion 74% connected

The act of expelling; a driving or forcing out; summary removal from membership, association, etc.

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Expulsion 74% connected

The act of expelling; a driving or forcing out; summary removal from membership, association, etc.

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Projection 74% connected

The act of throwing or shooting forward.

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Projection 74% connected

The act of throwing or shooting forward.

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Spirt 74% connected

Same as Spurt.

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Spirt 74% connected

Same as Spurt.

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Synonym 6

Discharge 92% connected

To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Exclude 92% connected

To shut out; to hinder from entrance or admission; to debar from participation or enjoyment; to deprive of; to except; -- the opposite to admit; as,…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Exhaust 92% connected

To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.

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Expel 92% connected

To drive or force out from that within which anything is contained, inclosed, or situated; to eject; as to expel air from a bellows.

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Release 92% connected

To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.

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Squirt 92% connected

To drive or eject in a stream out of a narrow pipe or orifice; as, to squirt water.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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